Sportingo thinks that Mr. Pound is a pitbull who will never let go (ask not only Floyd Landis but also Lance Armstrong).

Bicycle Retailer recycles the Reuters piece about the publication of "Positively False" on the eve of the Tour de France.The Philadelphia Inquirer's Rich Hofmann laments that cheating tarnishes the sports we love, and wonders if Floyd Landis will be driving the pace car at the Daytona 500 on Sunday. I believe Floyd has a previous engagement at an FFF event in San Francisco on Sunday.USAToday previews the upcoming Tour of California and observes its' current champion will not be there. Sal Ruibal notes that Landis used his ToC victory last year as a springboard to what was a phenominal season.

Cyclingnews opens its mailbag and finds lots of well, letters. One finds the amount of time the Landis hearing is taking unacceptable while another thinks that cheaters will be supported no matter what because the general public doesn't care much about cycling to begin with.

SF Examiner's Glenn Dickey says cheating is part of sports, and get over it. He's also less than complimentary about his previous paper's Pulitzer baiting the BALCO story using illegally leaked grand jury testimony. He is also clear about the status of the Landis case, unlike many columnists.

Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post looks at NASCAR cheating as a reflection of a decidedly American attitude to sport.

Stock-car drivers and crews have their own ethical system, and it's not for literalists, or those with no tolerance for ambiguity, who have to square the corner of every rule or argument. Nevertheless, it's a sport with clear-headedness on the difference between misdemeanors and felonies, while the rest of us can be damn nervous on the subject.

Oasis Newsfeatures is very interested in FL's Mennonite religious heritage, and hopes to find out more in the upcoming book "Positively False".

Now You Know in a blog entry chock full of examples of various improprieties, assures us that no FL did not contribute to Michael Waltrip's recent cheating scandal at the Daytona 500. Could this be the "snark of the day"? It's still very early.

Total Poindexter Website Prize: to the fabulous geniuses over at trustbutverify, who not only are perhaps the most impassioned defenders of Floyd Landis' virtue beyond only the boy himself, but actually seem to understand the detailed scientific arguments they put out that the rest of us (well, me) are too stupid to even coherently summarize. Floyd, you better be innocent, or you owe these folks a *major* freakin' apology! (racejunkie)

"Who does awards for blogs? I sense a nomination is in order." (Carlton Reid, of BikeBiz)

"Hands-down champion of full-and I mean full-coverage of this hearing is the blog Trust But Verify. You'll have to have excellent background knowledge of the issues, and wade through page after page of detail to get to anything interesting, but it's raw and unfiltered and all there. The guy who runs the site, a cycling fan from Northern California, began casually providing a clearinghouse for Landis case news nearly 10 months ago, and now he has the haunted look of a man whose life has been hijacked and wants it back. (Loren Mooney, co-author of Positively False, at Bicycling)

"if you want the latest news on the Floyd Landis case, Trust but Verify is the go-to site. The author is biased in favor of Floyd (so am I) but the reporting is neutral and comprehensive." (12string musings)

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TBV is personally biased towards Floyd. I think it'll be a better world if he proves his innocence, and some inquisitors meet their own just ends. Interspersed between daily link roundups are pieces of commentary slanted towards understanding what will prove innocence in the discipline proceeding, and what will rehabilitate his reputation in the public eye. Make of them what you will. Agreement with me is not required, though I am right.